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Important Terms
Important People of WWII
Important Battles of WWII
Major Events of WWII
Misc WWII stuff
100
Japanese strategy to purposely crash piloted planes into enemy ships
What is kamikaze?
100
Fiery speaker who inspired huge audiences by vowing to restore Germany to prosperity and a position of international power
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
Began on June 4, 1942 when U.S. aircraft carriers launched their attack on Japanese planes while there were refueling on deck
What is the Battle of Midway?
100
The program of mass murder used by Hitler and the Nazis in their effort to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe
What is the Holocaust?
100
Men from the ages of 18-38 were required to register for the army
What is the draft?
200
The extermination of an entire group of people
What is genocide?
200
British leader during World War II
Who is Winston Churchill?
200
The largest naval battle in history
What is the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
200
Where the U.S. fleet was attacked by the Japanese in December 1941
What is Pearl Harbor?
200
African American pilots who trained at the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
300
Policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving in to it's demands
What is appeasement?
300
Dictator of the Soviet Union in 1929
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
Conflict in which American and Japanese aircraft carriers and fighter planes clashed but neither side won a clear victory
What is the Battle of the Coral Sea
300
The secret program to develop the atomic bomb
What is the Manhattan Project?
300
The forced relocation and imprisonment of Japanese Americans
What is internment?
400
Strategy to capture only the most important islands in the Pacific
What is island hopping?
400
Leader who gained complete control of Italy in 1922
Who is Benito Mussolini?
400
The German Army was stopped during this battle in North Africa
What is the Battle of El Alamein?
400
Where more than 600 American and 10,000 Filipinos were starved and beaten by Japanese soldiers
What is the Bataan Death March?
400
Allowed the president to aid any nation he believed was vital to U.S. defenses
What is the Lend-Lease Act?
500
Political system in which the government is seen as more important than individuals
What is facism?
500
This labor leader organized a march to Washington to protest the unfair treatment of African Americans
Who is A. Philip Randolph?
500
The German loss during this battle was a turning point on the Eastern front
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
500
Groups of sailors attacked Mexican Americans in Los Angeles
What is the zoot-suit riots?
500
Created by the government to oversee the conversion of factories to war production
What is the War Production Board?